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A set of decorative stones adorning a column, with airport signage shown in the reflection.

I’m traveling again this week (4 weeks of travel in a row!), so today I’m sharing another picture of some “airport geology”. Specifically, this is a picture of some gorgeous decorative stones adorning a column at O.R. Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg, South Africa. I took this picture yesterday when I was passing through the airport. I particularly like the way the block of rock was split and the set up in a symmetrical fashion to enhance the effect of the natural patterns in the rock. There are quite a few similar sets of decorative stones around the airport — they adorn many support columns throughout the airport.

O.R. Tambo is full of gorgeous decorative stones. Last week I shared a shot of part of the floor.

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Sydney Hornstein, Prof Emeritus AMNH, wrote a piece in th NYTimes, “Fossils in The Walls.” The airport in West Palm Beach Florida is all fossilerous limestone.
I am from New Jersey and collect flourescent minerals. The mines in Franklin and Sterling are all flooded.

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Evelyn is a geologist, writer, traveler, and aspiring polyglot. She has undergraduate degrees in Earth Sciences and Arabic Language & Literature from Dartmouth College and a PhD in Marine Geology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology / Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program. She currently works in industry.

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